Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Erika Jayne’s top Los Angeles lawyer husband may soon be defending…himself.Thomas Girardi, 76, along with fellow lawyer Robert Finnerty and the law firm Girardi-Keese have been slapped with a federal lawsuit. Girardi is a founding partner of the firm.In court documents obtained exclusively by Daily Mail Online Tom is accused of defrauding clients out of millions of dollars won in a class action lawsuit.It claims Girardi used the $130 million he won for them on an escrow payment, his divorce attorney and his partners.
A man named Paul Kranich filed the lawsuit in California to get Girardi to pay up the money Kranich claims he illegally stole.In the lawsuit, Kranich alleges it is a case of: ‘conspiracy, criminal fraud, theft and breach of trust in which Thomas V. Girardi, Girardi-Keese, a well-known plaintiff’s law firm (‘Girardi’), and other attorneys and employees of Girardi-Keese participated in and aided and abetted a scheme to defraud their clients by charging excessive fees and costs and fraudulently converting settlement proceeds to which Plaintiff and other clients.’
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